Help replacing an image in a custom theme

  • Resolved kinseykahlo

    (@kinseykahlo)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    I’m trying to help a friend with her site, and I’m pretty new to WordPress. In particular, I’m trying to replace an image that’s been put into a custom theme (html5 blank). Presently, the page uses an image from her media library called “slide” and I want to replace that image with another one. In the theme editor, I think it’s calling for that image in this section of the code (since it starts right after the get header command, references “slide”, and comes before the other page content):
    “<div class=”sec_slider”>
    <div data-delay=”4000″ data-animation=”slide” data-autoplay=”1″ data-hide-arrows=”1″ data-duration=”500″ data-infinite=”1″ class=”slideshow w-slider”>
    <div class=”w-slider-mask”>
    <div class=”s1 w-slide”></div>
    <?php /*
    <div class=”s2 w-slide”></div>
    <div class=”s3 w-slide”></div>
    <div class=”s4 w-slide”></div>
    <div class=”s5 w-slide”></div> */ ?>
    </div>
    <div class=”w-slider-arrow-left”></div>
    <div class=”w-slider-arrow-right”></div>
    <div class=”w-slider-nav w-round”></div>
    </div>
    </div>”
    If you’re looking at the page, it’s the image with the flower that says “developing leaders for the 21st century”. I want to use a different image in its place. I tried replacing all of the places it references the word “slide” with a new image’s name, but those attempts result in a grey block in that section of the page, instead of a different image. I’m not used to seeing images used like this, so I’m not sure what to do. I would really appreciate help.
    I spent a couple of hours reading various support documents here and couldn’t find anything relevant to this particular issue. I appreciate anyone’s patience and guidance with this.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by t-p. Reason: moved from Developing With WordPress to Fixing WordPress

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    If this was a custom theme, you may have to go back to your developer team and ask them to make the necessary change(s) to the theme.

    Forum volunteers are not given access to custom or commercial products, so they would not know why it is not working properly. Keep in mind we encourage you to use the official support venues, as it allows the developers to be aware of issues with their code and gives back to the community in a more robust way. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/guidelines/#do-not-post-about-commercial-products

    Thread Starter kinseykahlo

    (@kinseykahlo)

    @t-p
    I read through that, I figured someone who knew more html might be able to help though… I didn’t realize just because it was a custom theme that meant I couldn’t ask for help.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by kinseykahlo.

    @kinseykahlo

    Hi, from what i can see you need to update the div class “.s1” background image, you can do this with CSS:

    .s1 {
background-image: url(www.evolvecoachingseattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/slide.png);
}

    Hope that helps

    if the image location refers to ‘slide’ there is a chance that it is the space for an intended slider, and you might find something:

    – in the settings of one of the plugins;
    – under ‘appearance’ – ‘customize’;
    – under some theme options;
    – under ‘settings’
    …

    Thread Starter kinseykahlo

    (@kinseykahlo)

    @jackie-chan – Much appreciated! I found the css file in the edit themes section and I found where it references .s1. I tried changing the file name it says to use there, but nothing happened (it still pulls the same picture into the home page)… I will see if I change it in the original section I found it now that I have changed it where you suggested…

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by kinseykahlo.
    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by kinseykahlo.

    @kinseykahlo Your welcome, did you manage to solve it?

    Thread Starter kinseykahlo

    (@kinseykahlo)

    @jackie-chan yes, I did resolve it. Unfortunately, it seems the developer buried the image assignment in code elsewhere in addition to the definition of s1. I think it was part of defining the kind of div they assigned, but I couldn’t figure it out. I ended up just removing the div that was assigned for the slideshow aspect (it wasn’t even functioning like a slideshow anyway), and I just used html to insert the image. It’s now exactly how we wanted it. I really appreciate your help though! I learned a lot by looking into this, and your assistance was much appreciated.

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